We have a new chess world champion

[Aristaeus]

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, from India became the new (and youngest) chess world champion after a catastrophic blunder from reigning world champion Ding Liren from China.

The 14th and final game looked to be a certain draw, which would mean a series of rapid chess tiebreaks that favoured Ding, when Ding blundered the game, the match, and the championship in one move - possibly the biggest blunder in chess world championship history.

I've been watching the games and actually turned the stream off near the end because it was obviously going to be a draw!

 

[Integrityrespec]

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, from India became the new (and youngest) chess world champion after a catastrophic blunder from reigning world champion Ding Liren from China.

The 14th and final game looked to be a certain draw, which would mean a series of rapid chess tiebreaks that favoured Ding, when Ding blundered the game, the match, and the championship in one move - possibly the biggest blunder in chess world championship history.

I've been watching the games and actually turned the stream off near the end because it was obviously going to be a draw!

Yeah, well he hasn't played against me yet!

 

[MamboDervish]

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, from India became the new (and youngest) chess world champion after a catastrophic blunder from reigning world champion Ding Liren from China.

The 14th and final game looked to be a certain draw, which would mean a series of rapid chess tiebreaks that favoured Ding, when Ding blundered the game, the match, and the championship in one move - possibly the biggest blunder in chess world championship history.

I've been watching the games and actually turned the stream off near the end because it was obviously going to be a draw!

THE KING IS DEAD - LONG LIVE THE KING!!

 

[Grogu]

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, from India became the new (and youngest) chess world champion after a catastrophic blunder from reigning world champion Ding Liren from China.

The 14th and final game looked to be a certain draw, which would mean a series of rapid chess tiebreaks that favoured Ding, when Ding blundered the game, the match, and the championship in one move - possibly the biggest blunder in chess world championship history.

I've been watching the games and actually turned the stream off near the end because it was obviously going to be a draw!

LOL. Now I’m going to have to get my chess set out and recreate the final moves of that game to see what happened.

That’s one of the cool things about chess, that you can actually trace matches, move by move, to see for yourself, although you can’t get completely into the minds of the players. Reminds me that I did this as a kid for each of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky games in 1972. My mother had a subscription to Newsweek magazine, and they published each game, move by move, each week.

That was some real Cold War stuff back then.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, from India became the new (and youngest) chess world champion after a catastrophic blunder from reigning world champion Ding Liren from China.

The 14th and final game looked to be a certain draw, which would mean a series of rapid chess tiebreaks that favoured Ding, when Ding blundered the game, the match, and the championship in one move - possibly the biggest blunder in chess world championship history.

I've been watching the games and actually turned the stream off near the end because it was obviously going to be a draw!

Chess is one of those games you cannot make a single mistake in when dealing with good players. I was on a chess team in Jr. High. We took second place state, even though I make a mistake.

I haven't played the game in a very long time.

 

[MamboDervish]

LOL. Now I’m going to have to get my chess set out and recreate the final moves of that game to see what happened.

That’s one of the cool things about chess, that you can actually trace matches, move by move, to see for yourself, although you can’t get completely into the minds of the players. Reminds me that I did this as a kid for each of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky games in 1972. My mother had a subscription to Newsweek magazine, and they published each game, move by move, each week.

That was some real Cold War stuff back then.

I still vividly remember the moves of each Fisher-Spassky game being analyzed and telecast in real time on PBS. Shelby Lyman was the fellow in front of the camera, with a handful of other chess masters on tap for analysis. It was, at times, very funny. And the notation we all used back then was based on King-side/Queen-side, rather than the simpler Cartesian coordinate system now used by everyone.